Kenny Chesney Scores Again at Country, Joey Hyde, RaeLynn Debut

Kenny Chesney's "American Kids" is once again country radio's most-added. New releases from Joey Hyde and RaeLynn also get off to solid starts.

Despite landing at more than one hundred stations last week, Kenny Chesney’s red-hot “American Kids” found a great many more stations at which to debut this week.

According to Mediabase, the song landed at another 56 stations to repeat as country radio’s most-added track. The additional support will help “Kids,” which is already the format’s 24th-most-played song, continue its surefire–and rapid–ascent into the upper reaches of the airplay chart.

While its airplay growth slowed this week, Sam Hunt’s “Leave the Night On” remains an attractive option for country radio programmers. Supported by iHeartRadio’s On the Verge program, the track scored adds from another 27 stations this week.

Rascal Flatts’ “Payback” claimed third for the week with 26 adds, while a pair of newcomers ranked as fourth- and fifth-most-added.

Joey Hyde’s “Get it On” and RaeLynn’s “God Made Girls,” those newcomers, arrived at 25 and 22 stations, respectively.

Keith Urban’s recently-released “Somewhere in My Car” followed with 21 adds, while Craig Morgan’s new “We’ll Come Back Around” was seventh-most-added with 19 pickups. John King’s “Tonight Tonight,” which is inching towards the Top 40 on the airplay chart, also scored 19 adds this week.

Yeah Kenny gets the Clear Channel push with his song being played on CC stations every hour and Sam Hunt gets the IHearts on the Verge and he’s an almost completely unknown artist and getting this ridiculous number of spins and all this pushing by these conglomerates doesn’t seem quiet fair to the other established artist trying to get their music heard. Kenny’s song is so so and not great and Sam Hunt’s song is Pop. There are some really great songs way below these two and getting overlooked and not played. Too political and so unfair!!